Sentence examples for dispirited- from inspiring English sources

In Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator depicts the "powerful joy" that a tea-soaked madeleine awakes in him when he is "dispirited after a dreary day, with the prospect of a depressing morrow".

I heard later that he had been dispirited by my visit.

Even as Colonial Secretary in 1966, he was so dispirited that he failed to master his brief and was quickly removed.

Its divided, dispirited managers also need decisive leadership.

By then the intrepid teenage playwright will be nearly 20 and, if not too dispirited by his "mixed" review in the Scotsman, may return with something sensational.

Moreover, the turnout among Republicans was lower than in 2008, itself a year in which the party was rather dispirited.

No wonder dispirited Europhiles hark back to the good old days.In this section Ireland's sad and confusing secret The many tricky ways of widening Europe Jacques Delors, France's avant-garde European A Bulgarian way into the EU Closing in?

Yet the province's well-wishers are dispirited these days.

Mr Chen, who ruled on a confrontational platform of independence from China, looked tired and dispirited, but was as combative as ever.

Tales of doctors dispirited by low pay and lack of medicines, or of hospital staff moonlighting as taxi-drivers are common coin.Yet that is not true of all.

This problem, they argued with hilarious hypocrisy, "is allowing our opponents to portray us as dispirited and disunited".